Soon it will be the Day of the Dead, a tradition that in my country is dying in a silenced way, and I am not the only one who thinks like that, the new generations of Mexicans do not feel deep rooted to this tradition because their parents haven't taught them the real meaning of this tradition and how to keep it alive. Mexico is a big country; the south and center Mexicans live this tradition in a different way than the people that live in the north of the country because they put passion into it. The cause of that is globalization; the life style of the Mexicans has changed. We are in a way following the customes of our neighbor country the U.S.A., like the adoption of the celebration of Halloween. It is good to learn from people that live in others countries, about their way of living, but Mexicans must conserve our customes otherwise we will loose part of our national identity and cultural treasure. Fortunately, the Government supports the tradition with cultural events, Educational institutions are doing the same by making a contest of who makes the most creative, original and decorated altar. And Mexican artists collaborate to this tradition. This tradition's meaning is to look at death like an event of joy, happiness and not to see death like something sad and dark. The decorated altar is a prehispanic tradition that has been integrated to the

Mexican Catholic Church. The celebration begins in November 1st for dead children, named "All Saints" and November 2nd for adults. To celebrate we build altars, on them we place the pictures of our loved persons that have died (the ones we are dedicating the altars to); the altar is covered with colorful papers with cut out designs, there are three main color which are purple (for pain), white (for hope) and pink (for celebration). We place candles all over the altar, and on the top we put four candles that represent the north, south, east and west; the importance of it is that candles will illuminate the way for the dead upon their return. We collect things that they used to love, and we prepare their favorite food and drink, also we put the typically "pan de muerto" that is sweet bread sprinkled with white sugar crisscrossed in the shape of a bone on the top and candy skulls. Flowers are also put on the altar; the important one is Cempasuchil, which comes from Nahuatl cempoalxochitl that means the flower with four hundred lives. And we pray for their souls, for them to have a better life while there is a small cross of ash so that the ghosts will expel their guilt. After writing this article, I reflected on my culture and now I see that death can be a beautiful event in our lives, because when someone dies a little child is born. That's the never-ending rule of life.